The Fifth Edition explores the development of leadership through empowerment and team engagement. It analyzes the characteristics and roles of leaders to provide strategies for leading interdisciplinary teams within new models of the complex healthcare system. Also integrated are the essential requirements for Quality Matters certification for online course development.

Although difficult, unraveling the care process across the healthcare system is necessary in order to identify specific areas where technology can enable care for the future and meet the triple aim. Healthcare systems that scrutinize this process can incorporate technology to decrease cost, improve patient experience, and improve overall population health. To affect change, leaders must be able to lead through ambiguity in order to see the patterns that signal change. Technology is a disruptor and it can motivate teams to create novel solutions to long held problems like those in the Triple Aim. The key for any leader is to understand how technology fits in. It’s seldom the only solution but rather a facilitator and catalyst to systemic change.

Emerging technologies are rapidly changing how nursing care is delivered by enhancing the tools for patient assessment, enabling care anywhere, delivering instant information for evidence-based care interventions, and the improving efficiency and quality of care delivery. Remote monitoring, virtual wound care, and high definition video allow nurses to assess patients away from the bedside. Care is being delivered anywhere through the use of social networks and virtual wound care tools. Information is delivered instantly to care providers through mobile devices, data dashboards, and virtual learning systems. Finally, patient care has become more efficient through the linkage of Real Time Location Systems connecting patient, equipment, and nurses together for coordinated efforts. Technology is enabling care in ways that the profession may not be prepared to handle.

“…very thorough and covers all of the current, pertinent topics. The chapters are easy to follow, detailed, and reflect the current state of healthcare [and the] online resources are a wonderful accompaniment.”

Written by healthcare leaders for current and future innovation leaders, it addresses the current and emerging issues facing healthcare leaders and practitioners who lead evidence-based innovation. A truly unique text, Leadership for Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions systematically addresses innovation and evidence from the perspectives of both a leader and a practitioner within the context of health care.

Authors Linda A. Roussel, DSN, RN, NFA-BC, CNL and Tricia Thomas, PhD, BSN, FACHE, NFA-BC, ACNS-BC, CNL recently spoke during a Jones & Bartlett Learning webinar about their new text, Management and Leadership for Nurse Administrators, Seventh Edition. During the webinar both authors discussed the focus of the new edition as well as the general trends in healthcare that drove the revisions.

Are you looking for a text that will help both professional administrators and nursing students understand the concepts and theories of management? The just published Management and Leadership for Nurse Administrators, Seventh Edition by Linda A. Roussel, James L. Harris, and Tricia Thomas provides a foundation on management and administration for nurse managers, executives and nursing students.

Health care policy is a hot topic in politics right now, and it is crucial that nurses join the conversation. In a recent article, Advance Healthcare Network for Nurses argues that “all too often, the body of people making decisions and planning societal changes lacks a clinical healthcare background.” However, one university has created a program to help change that.